This best practices report highlights the increasing influence business leaders have over the technology decisions of their organizations and the similarly rising need for better engagement paths when developing and delivering cloud initiatives with non-IT executives. Interactions with these executives should no longer be geared towards basic education, but towards building new capabilities and new advantages through interconnected technology systems. Learn how to identify these opportunities and communicate them through this best practices document.

Who will benefit?

Any IT leaders and managers of medium- to large-scale enterprise organizations who are responsible for making technology decisions based on feedback from, or discussion with, non-technical executives.

In this report, you will learn:

Best practices for delivering cloud business models, metrics and imperatives to executives

Areas of caution when discussing initiatives with corporate executives

Metrics and milestones for determining the success and measuring performance of cloud initiatives

Big data projects based in the cloud or on managed services enable companies to accelerate time-to-insight by rapidly acquiring and scaling big data infrastructure that previously had to be built from scratch.